My Version of the Truth

Oct 28, 2011 | The Writing Life

I’ve been haunted by the word truth. It first caught my attention when I saw an email from She Writes (a social media website for women writers) about my first Goddard advisor, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto. The blurb about her post “A Radical Act” included the following quote:...

The Power of Sharing

Oct 20, 2011 | Home

Finding the right balance between humor and appropriateness is a challenge in morning radio, especially when driving my fifteen-year-old daughter to school. I really enjoy listening to Elvis Duran and the Morning Show, but sometimes their conversation gets too...

Motivating Word

Oct 17, 2011 | Quotes

ACTION The process or state of acting or of being active. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or your life on the bus, or in the car, or at the computer. Not just the...

Monday's Motivating Word

Oct 10, 2011 | Quotes

Endurance The ability or strength to continue or last, especially despite fatigue, stress, or other adverse conditions; stamina.  Therefore, since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely,...

Hemingway Lesson Part II – Replenish your creative well

Oct 7, 2011 | Books

I love the scene from The Shining when Shelley Duvall goes into Jack Nicolson’s office and finds a stack of paper with “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” typed repeatedly for hundreds of pages. When I first saw it, back the 80’s, it really creeped me out....